σχελίς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σκελῐ́ς (skelís)

Etymology

The entry by Beekes in his Etymological Dictionary of Greek reads (in paraphrase):

"Generally taken as from σκέλος (skélos, “leg”), which is not impossible semantically, but certainly incorrect given the variant form, which points to Pre-Greek origin."

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skʰe.lís/ → /sçeˈlis/ → /sçeˈlis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skʰe.lís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /skʰeˈlis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sçeˈlis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sçeˈlis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sçeˈlis/

Noun

σχελῐ́ς • (skhelís) f (genitive σχελῐ́δος); third declension

1. (mostly in the plural) ribs of beef
2. sides of bacon

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ σχελῐ́ς; τῆς σχελῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σχελῐ́ς hē skhelís	τὼ σχελῐ́δε tṑ skhelíde	αἱ σχελῐ́δες hai skhelídes
Genitive	τῆς σχελῐ́δος tês skhelídos	τοῖν σχελῐ́δοιν toîn skhelídoin	τῶν σχελῐ́δων tôn skhelídōn
Dative	τῇ σχελῐ́δῐ têi skhelídi	τοῖν σχελῐ́δοιν toîn skhelídoin	ταῖς σχελῐ́σῐ / σχελῐ́σῐν taîs skhelísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σχελῐ́δᾰ tḕn skhelída	τὼ σχελῐ́δε tṑ skhelíde	τᾱ̀ς σχελῐ́δᾰς tā̀s skhelídas
Vocative	σχελῐ́ς skhelís	σχελῐ́δε skhelíde	σχελῐ́δες skhelídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• Greek: σκελίδα (skelída)

Further reading

• “σχελίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σχελίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σχελίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σχελίς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1436